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Sep 23, 2008

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I am curious, when you bought it did you have any preconceived notions as to what you might use it for? Are you on the web surfing every night using the PC or are you a gamer?

I ask because I bought a tablet six months ago, but I bought it expecting to not have a clue what to use it for. I go up to two or even three weeks without firing it up. Years ago not a night went by that I wasn't on my computer at home, but that has changed to where I might go on one day of the weekend. My wife uses her iPad daily, but she mainly plays games and has now started experimenting with eBooks.

When I do open the tablet I check emails on a few accounts (something I can use the phone to do) check eA and a few other forums and then scratch my head wondering what all the buzz is about the tablet revolution.

I do find it handy when I go on vacation as I don't have to break out the laptop just to surf the web. However, I still have to bring the laptop as it has corporate documents and connections I can't do on the tablet. So now I carry the laptop and the tablet.

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Sep 23, 2008

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\open rant
Scares me to think there are people driving around with tablets mounted to their dashboard. The in-dash GPS units and "entertainment centers" are bad enough, but jeeeeeez.....Where will it all end, wrapped around a telephone pole or in my bumper?

Oh I can do everything, I guess I'm just so heavily invested in the iPad and iOS in general that the user experience is just much better on the iPad.

I specifically use it for reading, gaming, web browsing and watching shows and all those things feel better on the iPad.

Having been an iPad user from the original iPad though I appreciate that it's going to take a lot to break me out of that cycle.

The one thing I love about the Android OS is the Google integration. I'm a gmail user personally and our company uses Google Apps and that experience on Android is head and shoulders above that on the iPad.

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Jun 2, 2011

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I've been using my Nexus 7 for various different things i.e travel companion (same as my iPad 3) for watching movies on, reading work emails via exchange (my work gave me a crappy BlackBerry Curve and you can't read attachments properly) and I use it as my sat-nav. Works well!

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\open rant
Scares me to think there are people driving around with tablets mounted to their dashboard. The in-dash GPS units and "entertainment centers" are bad enough, but jeeeeeez.....Where will it all end, wrapped around a telephone pole or in my bumper?

I don't like where I am seeing this all going.....

\close rant

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About a month ago, 12 miles south of town, a guy barreled into the back of an 18-wheeler at 70mph. He was using his phone, seat mounted laptop and dash mounted Internet enabled gps all at the same time. Apparently never saw it, never braked and will certainly never see the light of another day and return home to his wife and kids. Only good thing was he didn't take anyone else out with his stupidity. Sadly that's rarely the case.

Can't tell you how many morons sit in the middle lane of the main drag doing 15 under the speed limit while they yap on their phone then try to cut over two lanes to turn at the last minutes. Happens multiple times daily.